Oct 8, 2012

Singapore: Bus driver to face disciplinary action for gay slur

In a first of its kind case to be reported, an employee of a bus company in
Singapore will face disciplinary action after using a gay slur on a female
passenger in public.

SBS Transit has confirmed that it will take disciplinary action against its
driver for verbally abusing a passenger.

Leona Lo, a public relations consultant and transgender woman, reported being
called an “ah kua” by a SBS Transit bus driver at the Bedok Temporary
Interchange on Tuesday morning. The derogatory term in the Hokkien dialect is
commonly used to taunt effeminate men or transgender women...more, HERE

Puerto Rican Americans marching and celebrating on 5th Avenue, New York City, during the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade Sen. Patrick Le...

REAL HERO/REAL LIFE: Bishop John Shelby Spong

“I was simply interpreting a rising consciousness,” he said. “Whether it was race or women or homosexual people, the issue was always the same: fighting against anything that dehumanizes a child of God on the basis of an external characteristic.” Bishop John Shelby Spong (click on his photo)

¨Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?¨ Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu